https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4740

--- Comment #30 from C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> ---
@Michael Zajac: nothing related to table parsing in wikitext is simple,
unfortunately.  So I'm suggesting to concentrate on *making it possible*, and
let the template authors and/or VE, etc, worry about making it "dead-simple".

But I'm open to suggestions.  The HTML elements not currently supported in
wikitext are thead, tbody, tfoot, colgroup, and col.  If someone would like to
open a new wikipage proposing concrete "dead-simple" wikitext syntax for these,
I'd be happy to re-evaluate.  (But please make your proposal on a wikipage, so
that this bugzilla isn't bloated out with endless bikeshedding over tweaks to
the syntax.)

Note that the original page was reverted (as I understand the history of this
bug) because the implementation constructed an entire in-model memory of the
table during processing.  Wikipedia tables can be *huge*.  So any syntax
proposal must be able to be parsed without buffering and using as little table
context information as possible.  Similarly, you should be prepared to
demonstrate (using greps over a wikipedia dump, or similar) that the proposed
syntax does not break any existing table markup.

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